topic Sony Vaio Malfunctioning in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/sony-vaio-malfunctioning/m-p/692989#M10238 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I own a Sony Vaio VPCEB3L9E Black. Last night, i was computing grades in Microsoft Excel when the laptop suddenly freezed. I powered it off using the power button. I turned it on, and the boot process was very long. I got stuck on the welcome screen. I restarted and tried safe mode. Safe mode was very slow and sometimes unusable. I scanned for viruses but there were none. I also didn't install new programs recently.</P><P></P><P>I recently read in a forum that said that a laptop was stuck on a boot process and also tried safe mode. after getting into safe mode, they uninstalled avast antivirus and the laptop started functioning normally. Coincidentally, my laptop also has avast antivirus. </P><P></P><P>I haven't tried uninstalling it yet because there are some critical files and spreadsheets i need and i am scared that i will lose those files. What should i do?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:46:50 GMT ariejan_17 2013-03-26T03:46:50Z Sony Vaio Malfunctioning https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/sony-vaio-malfunctioning/m-p/692989#M10238 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I own a Sony Vaio VPCEB3L9E Black. Last night, i was computing grades in Microsoft Excel when the laptop suddenly freezed. I powered it off using the power button. I turned it on, and the boot process was very long. I got stuck on the welcome screen. I restarted and tried safe mode. Safe mode was very slow and sometimes unusable. I scanned for viruses but there were none. I also didn't install new programs recently.</P><P></P><P>I recently read in a forum that said that a laptop was stuck on a boot process and also tried safe mode. after getting into safe mode, they uninstalled avast antivirus and the laptop started functioning normally. Coincidentally, my laptop also has avast antivirus. </P><P></P><P>I haven't tried uninstalling it yet because there are some critical files and spreadsheets i need and i am scared that i will lose those files. What should i do?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:46:50 GMT https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/sony-vaio-malfunctioning/m-p/692989#M10238 ariejan_17 2013-03-26T03:46:50Z